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Seven mile line

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Today’s Random Fact…  

 

   The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald’s  

   restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven  

   miles long.  

 

(from gophercentral.com)

 

~I thought they didn’t want our culture to “invade” their culture?  If they are so “anti-American culture,” who stood in line?

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February 11, 2008 at 8:55 AM

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Simple Layer cookie bar

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dsc_0278_acookies.jpgI think even I can manage this recipe.

 

 

RECIPE: CHOCOLATE LAYER BARS

 

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INGREDIENTS:

1-1/2 c. finely crushed thin pretzels

3/4 c. (1-1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, melted

1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)

4 bars (4 oz) Unsweetened Baking Chocolate, broken to pieces

2 c. Campfire miniature marshmallows

1 c. Sweetened Coconut Flakes

1 c. coarsely chopped pecans

4 bars (4 oz) Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate, broken to pieces

1 Tbsp. shortening

 

DIRECTONS:

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Combine pretzels and melted butter

in small bowl; press evenly into bottom of 13×9-inch baking

pan. Place sweetened condensed milk and unsweetened chocolate

in small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at HIGH 1 to 1-1/2

minutes or until mixture is melted and smooth when stirred.

Pour over pretzel layer in pan. Top with marshmallows, coconut

and pecans; press firmly down onto chocolate layer. Bake 25

to 30 minutes or until lightly browned; cool completely in

pan on wire rack. Melt semi-sweet chocolate and shortening

in small microwave-safe bowl at HIGH for 1 minute or until

melted when stirred; drizzle over entire top. Refrigerate 15

minutes or until set. Cut into bars.

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February 11, 2008 at 8:10 AM

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Virus Alert

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It’s Friday. Lets have some midday merriment:

ALERT The Centre for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weary Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues, or anyone else via any means whatsoever – DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises. Take two good friends to the nearest grocery store and purchase one or both of the antidotes – Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system. You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.

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February 8, 2008 at 1:33 PM

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Link Relationships

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keeping an eye on technology
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Google’s new Social Graph API means it’s time to start using XFN
by Jason Preston | February 1st, 2008
The news is out today that Google has launched a Social Graph API – basically an open tool for charting social connections on the open web.
What this means, in short, is that XFN matters now. Google launched with some example tools that let you map out what link relationships they’ve found with your blog and other web sites.
This type of link data has existed for a while, and if you’re using WordPress, you may have already put it in. The big holdup has really been that until now there hasn’t been much use for that metadata—if you bothered to fill in all the information about how you’re connected to the people you link to, nobody cared. So why bother?
Well now Google is trying to pull the kind of relationship superdata that people are generating in Social Networks like Facebook (which, incidentally, Google can’t crawl like it can crawl the open web) out into blogs and web sites.
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February 4, 2008 at 4:41 PM

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Resource for online marketing

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Following the (Virtual) Crowds

Posted by Max Chafkin at 5:11 PM
This month’s cover package, “The New Basics of Marketing,” went live on Inc.com yesterday. As the title suggests it’s a comprehensive guide to what’s new in online marketing—covering everything from social networks to text message advertising. In putting together the package, we frequently wrestled with this question: How much technology is too much? Which technologies are worth considering, and which ones should be left to the futurists, bloggers, and your children?
Should every CEO of every company spend the next few months building up a presence on Tubearoo, WikiHow, Furl and the 47 other must have networks on the list? Probably not. But, as we wrote in this month’s issue, every company should at least understand what social networks are all about. Read our story to find out why and then check out this sidebar for a guide to advertising on a handful of the top networks.
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February 2, 2008 at 10:15 AM

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Resources for ways to market online

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List of social networks
clipped from www.insidecrm.com

50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

Web sites to help your company network, advertise recruit and more.
If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it’s missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Digg and more. Take advantage of these tools by asserting your company’s presence online and reaching more potential customers, business partners and employees.
Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites
Professional-Networking Sites
Niche Social-Media Sites
General Social-Media Sites
Job Sites
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February 1, 2008 at 5:13 PM

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Social Networks: Ready to Join the Party?

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Are social networks right for your company
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Social Networks: Ready to Join the Party?

Selling yourself on Facebook.
Beyond the simple fact that social networks offer advertisers access to tens of millions of potential customers, they present two clear opportunities for more effective campaigns. First, they promise the ability to target customers with precision. If you want to reach baseball-loving twentysomethings who live in Seattle and have a college education, you can find social network groups that fill the bill. Second, social networks encourage your customers to recommend your company to others. Let’s say your company has a Facebook profile, and another user signs on as a “fan” of yours. Facebook will then alert that person’s friends, informing them of the connection. Voil�: textbook viral marketing for free.
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February 1, 2008 at 5:11 PM

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Facebook Marketing Resources

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Lots of links to information about using Facebook as a markteting tool.
clipped from www.insidecrm.com
The Facebook Marketing Toolbox: 100 Tools and Tips to Tap the Facebook Customer Base
Learn to use Facebook as an advertising platform.
By Inside CRM Editors on January 23, 2008
If you’re thinking of tapping into the Facebook crowd for some high-profile advertising, take a look at this list of 100 tools and tips that will help you maximize all of the applications and opportunities that Facebook has to offer.
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February 1, 2008 at 5:05 PM

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Introducing a productivity initiative

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create a target board
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Introducing a Productivity Initiative

Create a Target Board
Measuring productivity is a vital component of any initiative to increase productivity levels. Communicating targets to staff members can actually prove to be a useful tool in facilitating an increase in productivity. Without clear and visible objectives, employees have no reason to improve their productivity. What is more, it is unfair to expect employees to guess what their targets are! Creating and updating target boards on a regular basis and ensuring that they are visible to staff (through a suitable medium) can contribute toward developing an objective-based working environment within which increased productivity can be clearly documented, and employees can be rewarded or held accountable for their performance.
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January 30, 2008 at 5:09 PM

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Tips for building confidence

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How to Build Confidence
As long as I’ve worked with, trained, and improved sales people, the number one focus for success has been their confidence. More important than any sales tactic is how each sales person feels about themselves. Simply put, people sell to their level of esteem. Here, then, are key areas to improve your team’s confidence and esteem:
Knowing you: Sales people who want to improve their mediocre performance must begin by understanding themselves.
Knowing the company: And by knowing the company, they must know the people. One of the key areas of team building is knowing and embracing the people around them everyday.
Knowing the customer: Author and businessman, Harvey McKay, wrote a list of 64 things you should know about your client to really be effective
Knowing the product: Become an expert on your product.
Set your vision: Set a vision of where you want to go. When anyone has a burning vision of what they want out of life, small set backs remain small.
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January 30, 2008 at 8:13 AM

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